The Sea and the Horizon in a Narrow Road

The author, Nujoom Alghanem, is an Emirati poet, artist, scriptwriter, and multi-award-winning film director. Through this poetic book, she invites readers to contemplate her extraordinary artistic tastes. Here is a quote from her poems:

Five chapters in this city

Summer hidden in every season

And an endless summer.

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The dove walks cautiously in the backyard

Saddened, contemplating the loneliness around

The water vessel yearns for her approaching

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Our conversations turned into stones

Grass sprouts around them

And washed by the autumn rains

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I search in the eyes of "Anna Akhmatova",

For what concealed behind her wandering irises   

And I found "Pushkin" and loved him for both.

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Clouds wrap the skyscraper,

The sun does not enter the rooms,

And the night does not wake from sleep.